Pencil-holder.



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PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 00122, 1908.

Patented Sept. 7, 1909.

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Inventor CYRUS PLATNER, 0F TOPEKA, KANSAS.

PENCIL I-IOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 7, .1909.

Application filed October 22, 1908. Serial No. 458,937.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CYRUS PLATNER, a citizen of the United States,residing in Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Pencil-Holders, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to pencil holders comprising a tubular coil ofspring wire with a retaining pin secured thereto by which the holder maybe fastened to a garment.

The object of my invention is to improve generally upon pencil holdersof this general nature; to provide a pencil holder of this nature whichis ada ted to hold pencils of various sizes and orms and yet holdingeach pencil so lightly that the pencil may be inserted into or withdrawnfrom the holder without much effort and without straining or pulling soas to be liable to tear the garment or loosen the holder or otherwiserender the device impracticable for a wide range of adaptability; and toprovide the holder of the special form herein shown and described inwhichboth the tubular coil and the retainer are formed by the samecontinuous wire.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, andin the description of the drawings, I have shown my invention in itspreferred form, and have shown the best mode of applying the principlesthereof; but it will be understood that changes in form, proportions,and materials, the transposition of parts, and the substitution ofequivalent members, may be resorted to, within the scope of the appendedclaims, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Figures 1 and 2 are, respectively, views taken from opposite ends, andFig. 3 is a side view, of a pencil holder made in accordance with theprinciplesi of my invention. Fig. 4: is a view of the holder applied toa garment.

Similar reference numerals indicate like or corresponding partsthroughout the several views.

1 represents a tubular coil of suitable spring wire, one end of which isbent slightly inwardly so as to extend across the crosssectional area ofthe tube as indicated at 2, and terminates in an eye 3, outside thecoil. At the opposite end, the wire is extended beyond the tube so as toform a retainer consisting of legs 4, 4L and portion 5, which portion 5is preferably straight or flat as shown. From this retainer the wirecontinues in another half-coil and terminates in a point 6 which extendsalong one of the legs 4.

To apply the pencil holder to a garment, insert the point 6 through thefabric and out again, taking up a distance approximately equal to thewidth of the retainer, and then twist the holder around so that the wirepasses through the fabric until the fabric is inside the retainer 4, 5,4:. The holder will then rest closely and fiat against the fabric of thegarment. The holder may be removed from the garment by a reverseoperation. The holder is preferably worn with the retainer end up, butit may be worn in any other manner, even being entirely concealed in apocket.

I do not intend, in the best form of my invention, to have the coil as awhole embrace the pencil inserted therein; but rather that the pencilshall be embraced by the side of the coil and by the extension, orinwardlybent end 2. The reason for this is that where the pencil isembraced by the coil as a whole, unless the pencil be of an exactlycorresponding size, it will be too hard to press the pencil into theholder or withdraw it therefrom, or, if too small, the holder will notkeep it at all. And it is not practicable readily to adjust the coil tosuit any size of pencil. I contemplate using a coil large enough toaccommodate a very large pencil, and then by bending inwardly oroutwardly the bent-in end 2, the holder may be readily accommodated toany size of pencil within a wide range; while very slight variations maybe even compensated for by the natural springiness of the extension andthe coil. By this means of adjustment, I am enabled to manufacture amost economical )encil holder, and he same time a verye cient and simpldapted to a wide range of sizes and pencils.

2. In a pencil holder a continuous single Wire formed lnto a tubecomprising a series of coils, one of the coils extended out beyond thetube at one side to form a loop for engaging the fabric, the Wirecontinuing from one side of the loop around the opposite side of thetube and thence outwardly along the other side of the loop andterminating in a point adjacent to the. loop, and one portion of the ireextending across the cross-sectional area of the tube, said loop andsaid cross extension being located at opposite ends of the tube,

3. In a pencil holder a continuous single 1 Wire formed intoa tubecomprising a serles of coils, a coil at one end extending beyond theside of the tube and provided with a pointed end to engage the fabric,and the Wire at the other end extending across the cross-sectional aretiat one side of the tube;

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